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Show 7048 Baldwin- D 5029 dollars and fifty cents; it would take thirty- six gallons of gas at thirty- two cents, ten dollars and fifty- two cents; four quarts of oil, be one dollar and forty cents; three trucks in traveling from Moab to Thompson and back would be two hundred and sixteen miles. We figure about four cents a mile per truck for tire cost; that makes the cost, the truck cost, forty- nine dollars and six cents. To take that on the barge from the dock to No. 2 we would have to figure two days' trip. Q Would it always take two days? A It would take two days to No. 2. Q About an average of that? A Yes. The pilot's wages on the two days would be twelve dollars; we have two helpers on the barge at four dollars and a half apiece, would be eighteen dollars; it would take approximately forty gallons of gas, thirty- two cents, would be twelve dollars and eighty cents; and two quarts of oil, seventy cents, that would be forty- three dollars and fifty cents for the cost of the barge compared with forty- nine dollars and six cents on the truck. Q You paid Virgil six dollars a day, did you? A Yes, just about. MR. BLACKMAR: Ask him right there if they paid the |
